Pretty amazing, although I don't know what kind of depraved sadist would want to play a modern PC/console game on an iPad.

There's just no way I could trust any high speed internet connection I've ever had to stream a full screen hi-res video without considerable stutter and/or lag. Cool idea though, and I'm sure it does work if you have an awesome connection.

@TickTock You could add this to the engineering, videogames, talks and maybe some other channel imo.

Also great sift!

I gotta say, I had a lot of doubts, but this seems pretty fucking cool!

I think there'll still be problems with control-lag, but I'll be happy to be wrong.

*videogames *geek *engineering *talks *future

Adding video to channels (Engineering, Future, Geek, Talks, Videogames) - requested by gwiz665.

Dude sounds like Charlie from Its always sunny in Philadelphia

Timely sift, nice one OP

Awesome, awesome stuff. I was beginning to think this was vaporware or was going to be horribly lagged. Just why in the hell are the controls above the game screen, though?

Onlive is a joke. Plain and simple.

I love how divisive onlive is. You get 3 types of comments on it.

AWESOME SAUCE

I'm not sure but it could rock

and

TOTAL BULLSHIT, IMPOSSIBLE.




Just remember 5 years ago nobody thought cloud computing had any hope...look where we are now

OnLives whole concept is: Why buy a gaming pc, when you can buy us a gaming pc instead, then we'll send you video of your games since we're holding them essentially hostage, which you can then watch.... on the 2nd PC you'll buy anyway.

>> ^Fade:

I love how divisive onlive is. You get 3 types of comments on it.
AWESOME SAUCE
I'm not sure but it could rock
and
TOTAL BULLSHIT, IMPOSSIBLE.
Just remember 5 years ago nobody thought cloud computing had any hope...look where we are now

OnLive is set to launch now, though. They can't wait another 5 years for everyone to have fiber optics to the home in order to provide a reasonable input lag for everyone. 50ms-200ms client<-->server lag can be playable in some games if they use good prediction but it's entirely different when it takes that long for the game to even know you pressed a button.

I also recently discovered that you will be required to pay a subscription to the service and still pay full price for the individual games. That greatly lowers their value, IMO.